Bug#256855: No option for Radeon cards
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 18:35 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 06:14:15PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 00:52 +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > >
> > > If 'ati' doesn't work, then 'radeon' has no business working.
> >
> > That's the theory, but the ati wrapper requires code of its own to
> > support the same chips as radeon does. Maybe that was missed for a patch
> > which adds support for newer Radeon chips. Been there, got bitten by
> > that. :\
>
> Do we know that that's actually the case here?
We'd have to see server logs to be sure, but I can't think of another
reason why 'radeon' would work but not 'ati'.
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